Read Along Dads

Focal supports literacy and literature development in the Mount Alexander Shire community, including prison literacy programs, like Read Along Dads/Mums.

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

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@PRG_UK Great list! ❤️ The Grinch that Stole Christmas is always a hit for Read Along Dads!

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

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Interesting article re Christmas in a UK prison

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

what's your favourite CHILDREN's book of the year?

[SF Said @whatSFSaid]

Why read books? Because books let us see the world through other eyes. They are the greatest EMPATHY ENGINES ever invented. #literacy

(Art: @chrisriddell50)

[V. Sivankutty @VSivankuttyCPIM]

104-year-old Kuttiyamma from Kottayam has scored 89/100 in the Kerala State Literacy Mission’s test. Age is no barrier to enter the world of knowledge. With utmost respect and love, I wish Kuttiyamma and all other new learners the best. #Literacy

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

This book is becoming popular in prison - so good for a number of situations.
https://t.co/Hm3skHgQEk

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

Loving the free audio books from the ACLF - this month's it is the beautiful My Place by Sally Morgan. https://t.co/r0CIqKr4LJ

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

@NicolaAHarding @TonySales1 @WeFightFraud @NyJones1933 Love that image, do you know anything more about it?

[Vacro @ReintegrationAu]

Children belong in classrooms and playgrounds, not in handcuffs, courtrooms, or prison cells.

Join the call to #RaiseTheAge of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14. Sign the petition here https://t.co/imLJD7bCrl

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

Storytime that helps explain to kids what's going on when their parent is in prison. Very moving.
https://t.co/X5sCfQcqE4

[Jackie French @jackie_french_]

Coming August 2022...

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

Just did this poem in today's Shared Reading session in the women's prison. They took it as a message of hope.
https://t.co/zCqbmkEisK

[Dr Nicola Harding @NicolaAHarding]

I collected my PhD yesterday.. so I guess Dr Nic is now fully official.

"Ex-offender" to Dr in 12 years.

Time to make some change on the world! But first, alot of thankyous..

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

Last week myself and Focal president Denise Jepson spoke at the Inquiry into children affected by parental incarceration @VicParliament The children are often the forgotten ones when it comes to incarceration - hopefully this Inquiry will give them a voice.

[David Shipley @ShipleyWrites]

I start my next #prison #inspection tomorrow. Three days in a Cat B Local. I'm looking forward to it - it feels a little easier than the first inspection. I wrote about that here: https://t.co/P0bxcA6dzs

[Fiona Patten @FionaHPatten]

Chairing an inquiry into Children Affected by Parental Incarceration. It has been fascinating and heartbreaking. We've met with parents in prison who often had parents in prison. We must do better or we just keep spending billions on prisons #springst
https://t.co/k44Q6kpP5L

[A Beautiful Culture @ABeautifulCult1]

Victorian era Reading Nook, 1890s

[Read Along Dads @Readalongdads]

Thank you for this - just what I needed!

[Red Room Poetry @RedRoomPoetry]

LOOK
Shimmering waves
from hot desert sands,
colour blending, changing.
~ Uncle Ken Canning, from ‘My Earth - My Mother’

Read it on our website: https://t.co/7hcwXmLqBm

#Poetry #firstnationspoetry #FridayPoem

[National Centre ACL @NatCentAusChLit]

Amazing variety in sophistication here living up to the fact that in @TheCBCA picture books can be for any age, going way back to Junko Morimoto's 'Kojuro and the Bears'. Our congrats to this fascinating range!

[Shoël Stadlen @ShoelStadlen]

My 9yo told me there's a new 6yo Afghan boy at school who doesn't speak much English and he (my son) has been designated his reading buddy. My son read him a story and the boy repeated words he recognised like 'cat' and 'dog'. When they finished the story, he hugged my son.